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Download and RUN ffmpeg-win-2.2.2.exe to install it. Even through I've put it in the Audacity/Plug-ins folder It's probably best to delete (or move) that before re-installing. On my Win10 64-bit computer it was automatically installed ...

Trying to get a fresh install of Audacity working, but FFMpeg is giving me grief.... Won't "auto recognize" and when go to Prefs/Libraries to try to browse for it, it wants me to locate avformat-55.dll.... Even through I've put it in the Audacity/Plug-ins ...

Following these instructions: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/ins ... ndows.html
takes me to: https://lame.buanzo.org/#lamewindl
Scrolling a little down that page is a text link "fmpeg-win-2.2.2.exe" which I've just tested and it is working.

Hi all, I have been trying to open .m4a files in Audacity but it requires me to download ffmpeg, however the link on the Audacity Manual does not work and when I tried to search the web I could not find an ffmpeg that I could download. I would appreciate any help because ...

Am I screwed with this file? Probably yes. I don't understand what the issue with the shared dll is in the above log. "FFmpeg" is an optional library that enables Audacity to support additional file types. It is not related to this problem. If I'm screwed and you've any idea ...

... audio with silence (I was sure not to click this.) The help log gives me this information: 14:10:01: Audacity 2.2.0 14:10:01: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries... 14:10:01: Trying to load FFmpeg libraries from system paths. File name is 'avformat-55.dll'. 14:10:01: Looking up PATH environment ...

steve wrote: > Are you able to build Audacity from the source code? Yesterday I installed Ubuntu 18 in Hyper-V, but it installs cmake 3.10. When I run >cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -Daudacity_use_ffmpeg=loaded .. it complains that cmake 3.15 is needed. Do I need Ubuntu 20 to build Audacity?

M4A is the audio format MP4 is the video format with sound inside it. I believe if you install the FFMpeg add-on software, M4As should just open. MP4s might open too, but that's overkill. Scroll down. https://www.audacityteam.org/download/mac/ However. Are you sure Voice ...

System: Pop_OS (Ubuntu) 20.04 Audacity 2.3.3 (from Debian -> Ubuntu -> Pop_OS) 17:25:22: Audacity 2.3.3 17:25:22: Retrieving FFmpeg library version numbers: 17:25:22: AVCodec version 0x3a3664 - 58.54.100 (built against 0x3a3664 - 58.54.100) 17:25:22: AVFormat version 0x3a1d64 - 58.29.100 ...

Thanks. It seems like my providers were blocking for some reason. This seems to be a common problem. I have tried on a different connection and it's working now.